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Topic: Could the world work without money? (Read 2240 times)

People argue that money is the only way to ensure people work and is a massive incentive. But just think for a moment. Could it be possible to live without material needs? I think so.

As you can see, jobs today are being replaced by machines which can do jobs faster and cheaper than people. They don't need breaks and they don't need to stop. Is it really possible that people can finally get rid of money and let machines do all the work and people can then find things to do that they enjoy. It would be strange to us to think about it this way but this may be a reality one day.

Actually, I feel the monetary system is what holds us back from being truly civilised. If everyone treated each other fairly rather than being as ruthless as possible to earn more than someone else then the world would be a better place.

Is it fair that someone who works 50hrs a week in an office gets paid Â£150,000 a year compared to someone working 90hrs a week mining for gems and paid less than Â£500 a year? I honestly don't think so.

if their was no money, no one would b obligated to do anything, so they would take what ever they want, and bye bye civilized world. no one would work since they dint have toas big boss said, it would be very primitive

So little faith you have in people. You may not realise it yet, but jobs are being taken up by machines already and there will come a time that the number of jobs will be far less than the people who want them. This itself is a product of money, but the problem is, once no one has jobs to fill and so many are out of work, no one will be able to buy anything. Material wealth also leads to all sorts of problems not least robbery. It leads to drug lords, illegal wars, pollution and many other things besides.

ur wrong, with machines taking over it doesn't remove jobs, it just modifies whats needed as jobsu need mechanics, programmers, and such, and no one will make any of that if they aren't getting paidsorry, I just don't see it happening, i am glad you believe so

And you suppose the machines wouldn't have the means of fixing themselves? Technology today might not be quite sufficient but in a couple of decades it may become a problem unless money is cast away into obsolescence.

Even if the majority of people are the naive kind of Samaritans you hope for, the only thing you need is a small group of ruthless selfish ones, who will then abuse that fact... You will never get everyone to be content with what they have, humans don't work that way.

Money isn't actually the problem in itself, I think. It's just a manifestation of value.. if you took away money, things would still have value, our whole way of life is built around it... money CAME from it! people trading their goods in exchance for services others can provide. If things didn't have a value, you could ask someone to build you a castle, in exhange for a potato.... this is just one tiny single example.

I'm not incredibly good at putting forward my own opinions, and this one is particularly difficult because the arguments against it are so vast it's nearly impossible to summarise =D

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I fail to see how money is a bad thing. ItÂ´s just an help to make exchange of goods easy.And no, People canÂ´t live without material needs. Do you wanna live in communism? We had it right next here in East Germany, luckly it changed when i was born. Communism is a very bad form of goverment. You know thereÂ´s a reason they build a wall to keep the people in.

In the future machines might do all the work and people can relax, do only the things they like. But i donÂ´t know if thatÂ´s really a good thing.People will dislearn to live without them. And what if machines crash? And what if machines take control over human like we saw in several Sci-Fi-Movies?And there is one thing machines will never be able to. Being creative!

I don't think the world could ever truly work without money. There are many reasons for this but I will just name 1 or 2.

Many people in the world are very ambitious and hard working. They work as hard as they can all their lives to try and get decent jobs and earn a decent living. It would not be fair on these people to suddenly ration everyone the same supplies. What if you wanted to go and buy a brand new Xbox1800 but couldn't because you weren't allowed or couldn't afford one?

Also, who would run the robots, how would they function, how would they be 'paid' for? Even if they could run themselves the energy would have to be generated from somewhere.

Also, I don't think it would encourage a very healthy human existence for people to do what they wanted all day every day. It could ultimately lead to everyone becoming very fat and very lazy. I think everyone needs a purpose in life, a way of being useful, to make themselves happy. I think in that future world many people would be bored and depressed.

Many people in the world are very ambitious and hard working. They work as hard as they can all their lives to try and get decent jobs and earn a decent living. It would not be fair on these people to suddenly ration everyone the same supplies. What if you wanted to go and buy a brand new Xbox1800 but couldn't because you weren't allowed or couldn't afford one?

I never said people won't want to work and they won't be able to, there will be plenty of things they could do, otherwise, why educate people?As for your other point of rationing, who said people would be rationed? No money means you won't have to buy it, you just request it and as soon as it becomes available it will be sent to you. Games would work more like rentals, but you can hold onto as many as you like, in fact, it may just all be digital distribution.

Also, who would run the robots, how would they function, how would they be 'paid' for? Even if they could run themselves the energy would have to be generated from somewhere.

To begin with, it will be up to people to maintain machines, but there will always be people willing to give up their time for the good of the whole community. Think of working more like moderators on websites and other voluntary jobs. Once technology becomes good enough, machines would self sustain.

Also, I don't think it would encourage a very healthy human existence for people to do what they wanted all day every day. It could ultimately lead to everyone becoming very fat and very lazy. I think everyone needs a purpose in life, a way of being useful, to make themselves happy. I think in that future world many people would be bored and depressed.

If anything, it would be quite the opposite. What depresses most people is having no money to pay the bills off that mount up every month. That would be gone. Crime would be almost none existent too, why steal something if you can't sell it? Drugs wouldn't be much of a problem because there would be no money to be made from it.Fatty foods are cheaper than healthier foods right now, if things had no value, people could eat more healthily. Leisure activities would be everywhere and you can always get the equipment for it no matter what that is. Not only that, no extortionate gym fees, everything would be free.People would be able to get as much education as they like as well, plus compulsory schooling up to the age of 25 for everyone, but can choose to continue on further there after at any age.